Gone are the days when people had to wait in serpentine queues to purchase a stamp paper. The efforts of the Karnataka Government in promoting e-Stamp papers with the support of the public sector Stock Holding Corporation of India has started paying rich dividends. Nearly 175 e-Stamp sale counters have come up across the State. E-Stamp papers sale has gained popularity in Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu as well.
“It is almost impossible to produce a fake e-Stamp paper. Each paper carries a code and the paper itself has several security features. The efforts are on to open 400 e-Stamp vending centres across the State and of them 200 will be located in Bangalore where the sale of stamp papers is one of the highest.Credit for this should go to K.R. Niranjan who until recently was the Inspector General of Registrations and Commissioner of Stamps.” says S.N. Jayaram, the incumbent Inspector-General of Registrations and Commissioner of Stamps.
E-Stamp papers are available in select branches of Syndicate Bank, Canara Bank, Souharda Cooperative Bank, Indian Bank and Corporation Bank while Punjab National Bank and Karnataka Cooperative Apex Bank have come forward to open sale counters. Apart from this the new variety of stamp papers are also sold in nearly 50 post offices and this will be extended to another 50 by the Postal Department.In the two years from March 2008, a total of 9.53 lakh e-Stamp papers with a face value of Rs 73.19 crore have been sold in the State.
The introduction of e-Stamp papers and the opening of sale counters across the State will not merely counter the circulation of fake document papers but also net a rich revenue to the State exchequer.
